The Girls Trip breakout star, who will present at the Oscars, said she wore the traditional dress as a nod to her late father, who was from Eritrea. “He said one day I would end up here, and if I ever end up at the Oscars to honor my people,” she said on ABC’s red carpet broadcast. “So I’m honoring my fellow Eritreans.”

Haddish called herself the “princess of Eritrea” as she made her way down the red carpet — and her royal look won several admirers online.

Tiffany Haddish, dressed like an Eritrean queen and musing about Kobe Bryant and tonight's true shattered barriers: "Like, he's the first NBA player to even be nominated for an Oscar. This is, like, historicaaal."